The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter
Edmund de Waal's porcelain is shown in many museum collections round the world and he has recently made installations for the V&A and Tate Britain. He was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan and read English at Cambridge. He is Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and lives in London with his family.
[A] wonderful book
*Waitrose Weekend*
In a decade where memoir became the dominant genre, this immensely
evocative family history told via the journey through the
generations of some Japanese miniature figures stood out
*Sunday Times, *Books of the Decade**
An evocative narrative of art, inheritance and loss
*Homes & Antiques*
From a hard and vast archival mass...Mr de Waal has fashioned,
stroke by minuscule stroke, a book as fresh with detail as if it
had been written from life, and as full of beauty and whimsy as a
netsuke from the hands of a master carver.
*The Economist*
This remarkable book... a meditation on touch, exile, space and the
responsibility of inheritance... like the netsuke themselves, this
book is impossible to put down. you have in your hands a
masterpiece.
*The Sunday Times*
Few writers have ever brought more perception, wonder and dignity
to a family story as has Edmund de Waal in a narrative that
beguiles from the opening sentence
*Irish Times*
Part treasure hunt, part family saga, Edmund de Waal's richly
original memoir spans nearly two centuries and covers half the
world
*Evening Standard*
A book that combines the charm of a personal memoir with the
resonance of world history.
*The Scotsman*
[de Waal) weaves together with great delicacy various strands of
the lives of a glamorous dynasty
*The Telegraph*
The miracle of this book is that, by the end, we do learn the
itinerant life of this collection. How did the netsuke escape the
Gestapo? How did they return to the family and move to Tokyo? The
answers, like much in this book, are incredible
*The Independent*
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
